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Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 51, No. 352, pp. 1769-1780, November 1, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Review Articles

Aspects of seasonality

Now all the knowledge of the heavens pertinent to Agriculture, standeth principally upon three sorts of observations, to wit, the rising of the fixed stars; the setting of the same; and the four cardinall points, to wit, of the two Tropickes or Sunsteads, and the double Aequinox, which divide the whole year into foure quarters and notable seasons. Pliny

Nick H. Battey1

Department of Horticulture, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AS, UK

Abstract

The seasons are astronomical, astrological, meteorological, biological, and agricultural. From a perspective outside the biological sciences, the questions of interest about plant seasonality are linked to this wider context. In this review I try to see flowering time, as one important aspect of seasonality, from an outsider's point of view, and describe what is known about it in different types of plants. What is known about it is conditioned by what particular scientists have asked about it, so the variety of approaches to seasonality is another point of emphasis. Detailed consideration is given to flowering seasonality in perennials compared with annuals, and both molecular and whole plant perspectives are presented.

Key words: Seasonality, flowering time, annuals, perennials.


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